3 students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were suspended over a photo posted online of them not wearing masks during Saint Patrick’s day.
The University suspended the students but will still be charging them the full amount for the semester. All three of the students were freshmen at the school.
From The Daily Wire:
The three girls were asked to study virtually and at home following their suspension, according to a local CBS News affiliate. Last week, parents said that their daughters were cut off from the virtual learning facility, making the semester a complete wash both financially and academically.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst charges $18,213.50 per semester for out-of-state tuition and $8,219.50 per semester for in-state tuition.
The picture appears to have been taken on St. Patrick’s Day before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its guidance that vaccinated people can remove masks outdoors.
Parents told the local CBS station that one of the girls was the valedictorian and class president of her high school.
The story is heartbreaking for those involved, all that money has gone to waste, and potential careers are thrown out the window over one photo that too many means absolutely nothing.
I went to The Daily Wire and saw the picture in question. Though the girls have the top halves of their faces blocked out, that doesn’t matter. Look in the background and you see all sorts of folks around the same age as these three girls who are running around without masks either. In fact, in my cursory examination, I didn’t see a single person with a mask. So, what is the school going to do about all these others who are potentially students as well? Are they going to steal the tuition money from each of them also, potentially setting the university up for a massive lawsuit? What the girls did was neither illegal nor against school policy. They were not in class, they were not working for the school, they were not representing the school. From what I can see, they did not appear to be on school grounds. (It looks like apartments in the background.) As such, the school had no authority or jurisdiction over the girls or their activities at the time. Therefore, the girls should be reinstated; given full credit for their classes from the time that they were suspended until now with no need to complete any homework, quizzes, tests, or papers required during this time; offered a formal written apology in regard to this incident; all records of this issue save for the aforementioned written apology removed from their school records; and provided a refund of their tuition for the time that they were suspended inappropriately. Further, the school should be forced to make a televised statement that it acted contrary to the law, overstepped its authority, and offers its apology to the girls and to their families who were offended, upset, and otherwise affected by the school’s actions. Those who allowed this action against the girls to happen should themselves be suspended without pay pending termination by the school and possible civil lawsuits by the girls and their families and potentially by the school to force the knuckleheads to compensate the school for the money that it had to forgive the girls due to the actions of these imbeciles. If they are not fired from their positions within the school, they should at least be removed from any positions in which they are empowered to make decisions that affect the students in the future. Maybe they could be litter collectors wandering through the lawns of the buildings picking up the candy wrappers the students toss behind. That way they would be as harmless as the squirrels far above them in the tree branches.
I bet no one can tell that I feel just a wee bit strongly about this, right? 😉
Lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuit! Sue the scat out of this socialist propaganda machine.
Pissed off American, it is very expensive to send your kids to school, Liawahtha Warren and her ilk get $400k a year to indoctrinate the attendees. You wouldn’t Wahoo Warren to get a used Bentley as a second car would you? (Sarcasm)
Who in their sane mind pays that much to go to college for PC BS? If the parents are that smart to make that high of income to send their kids there. They should be able to home school them better that that. OH Yeah! they can’t do all the drugs, drinking and Sex at home. Have to have that “College” experience. Good Grief.
I have several degrees, and went to trade school. Never spent more than $16,000 a year for everything, room board, food etc. Somebody being screwed and not being kissed. I guess the fancy college name on a piece of paper is worth something to somebody. Is “WOKE” a major now, Safe Space Snowflake basket weaving or Butt wiping 101? Good Luck.
Liberalism on display.
Someone was jealous of these college girls to get them wrote up in the first place.
In normal intelligent gathering years nobody would have cared, but now people actually search endlessly for the least little mistake.
Imagine walking around with masks thinking it’s your best defense against a politically motivated virus.
The country would be better off if all of these “universities” were shut down permanently.
What does one expect from a university (multiversity?) in a liberal loony state? I for one am not surprised.
Girls sue the University. This nothing more than highway robbery.
MASSACHUSETTS AMHERT ! What do you expect from a typical Massachusetts college where they tape crystals on their heads for hangover headaches.